Comment 87 for bug 194029

Joel Fuster wrote:
> I applied your patch and rebuilt Synergy, but I still have the lag issue. I am using it as a client to a WinXP machine. Potentially relevant information:
> * Running an up-to-date 8.04
> * I have an SMP machine
> * It is most pronounced for me with Mozilla Thunderbird or a busy page in Firefox--whenever the window loses or gains focus, there is a large amount of lag
> * Unlike many of the other reports, running synergyc as root does not fix the problem for me.
> * I did not have this problem with 7.10

I'll need to check, but I think the patch only affected the server.
Does it work better if you switch roles--make Ubuntu the server and XP
the client?